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DPI Deep Dive — Friday | September 04, 2026 Layer: L5 — Sectoral Infrastructure (ABHA/ABDM, AgriStack, eCourts) Window covered: August 28 – September 4, 2026 This week, all three sectoral stacks hit the same wall from different directions: the registries are built, but usage is the hard part. Health — Haryana’s numbers show how thin private-sector adoption of ABDM actually is. Agriculture — the Centre paid Telangana for finishing AgriStack milestones while the state photographs 1.93 crore farm fields and quietly links season-end procurement to registration. Justice — the Supreme Court bumped a “guilty-by-default” design flaw in the V-Courts portal up to its e-Committee. And a vendor breach abroad showed what is at stake when court data lives on commercial servers. Four stories, one theme: the sectoral layer has moved from construction to utilisation, and utilisation is where consumer interests actually get decided. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | August 28, 2026 India’s sectoral digital public infrastructure — the application-layer DPIs built on top of identity and payments rails — had a watershed week. Three stories crystallised a common theme: the race between data collection velocity and institutional readiness to use that data responsibly. 1. AgriStack Crosses 10.31 Crore Farmer IDs — But States Are Being Rapped for Dragging Their Feet On August 22, the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that AgriStack’s Farmer Registry had issued over 10.31 crore Farmer IDs nationwide — up from 8.48 crore in February and 9.20 crore in March. The acceleration is real: roughly 2 crore IDs added in under six months. The government’s target of 11 crore by FY 2026-27 is now within striking distance. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | August 14, 2026 Layer 5: Sectoral Infrastructure — ABHA, AgriStack, eCourts India’s sectoral Digital Public Infrastructure is having a blockbuster week. Three parallel systems — health IDs, farmer registries, and digital courts — are scaling at a pace that few predicted even 18 months ago. This deep dive examines the most significant developments across ABHA, AgriStack, and eCourts from August 7–14, 2026. 1. ABHA Crosses 96 Crore: India’s Health ID Enters the Real Economy On August 13, the government released fresh data on the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) that puts ABHA — the 14-digit health identity number — at 96.43 crore registrations as of August 12, 2026. That is not the headline number, though. What matters more is the 110 crore health records now linked to ABHA, alongside 5.47 lakh registered health facilities and 10.50 lakh healthcare professionals on the platform. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 31, 2026 India’s Layer 5 — Sectoral Digital Public Infrastructure — covers mission-mode digitisation across healthcare (ABHA/ABDM), agriculture (AgriStack), and the judiciary (eCourts). This week saw decisive moves on all three fronts, with states accelerating ground-level adoption and the Supreme Court signalling an unprecedented infrastructure overhaul. 1. J&K Pushes AgriStack-RBI ULI Integration for Farm Credit Jammu & Kashmir’s Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on July 29 ordered a daily monitoring mechanism to fast-track SVAMITVA and AgriStack implementation, directing banks to accelerate API integration with the RBI’s Unified Lending Interface (ULI).12 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 25, 2026 This week’s Layer 5 deep dive covers India’s sectoral digital public infrastructure — health (ABHA/ABDM), agriculture (PM-KUSUM, AgriStack adjacents), and judiciary (eCourts). The past seven days have been remarkably active across all three verticals. 1. ABHA Crosses 940 Million IDs: India’s Digital Health Backbone at BRICS At the 16th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting in Chandigarh (July 21–24), Union Health Secretary Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava presented India’s digital health infrastructure to an international audience. The numbers are staggering: over 940 million ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) IDs have been created, and more than 1 billion (100 crore) health records are now digitally linked through the system. Over 1 million healthcare professionals have been issued unique digital identities, and 5.33 lakh health facilities are registered on the platform. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 24, 2026 Layer L5: Sectoral Infrastructure — ABHA & Digital Health, AgriStack, eCourts This week’s sectoral DPI layer saw significant movement across health, agriculture, and judiciary. India is hosting the BRICS Health Ministerial with digital health as a centrepiece, NHA conducted a major national review of ABDM, AgriStack-ULI convergence with land records accelerated, and the Supreme Court’s draft AI regulations for courts approached finalisation. Here’s the deep dive. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 03, 2026 Theme: L5 — Sectoral Infrastructure (ABHA, AgriStack, eCourts) The past seven days have been among the most consequential for India’s sectoral digital public infrastructure in recent memory. Three distinct pillars—health, agriculture, and judiciary—saw major launches, regulatory interventions, and operational rollouts that collectively deepen India’s stack-and-integrate model of digital governance. Here are the five stories that mattered most. 1. Aarogya Setu 2.0 Launch: From Pandemic Tracker to National Health Gateway On June 29, 2026, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched Aarogya Setu 2.0 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi—effectively repositioning the app from its pandemic-era identity into a comprehensive digital health gateway. The launch event also unveiled a suite of complementary platforms: the Ayushman mobile application (upgraded), the Ayushman Sarathi AI chatbot, e-Sushrut Clinic (a clinic management solution built by C-DAC), and the National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX). ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | June 19, 2026 This week’s Friday deep dive covers L5: Sectoral Infrastructure — the domain-specific digital public infrastructure layers that build on top of India’s foundational identity, payments, and data exchange rails. Three sectors saw significant movement in the past seven days: digital agriculture (AgriStack), digital health (ABDM/ABHA), and digital judiciary (eCourts + AI). 1. AgriStack Expands to West Bengal and Sikkim as PM-KISAN 23rd Instalment Approaches The most significant sectoral DPI development this week is the upcoming launch of AgriStack in West Bengal, announced by the Prime Minister’s Office on June 18. The PM will release the 23rd instalment of PM-KISAN from Tarakeswar, Hooghly on June 20, transferring ₹18,880 crore to over 9.44 crore farmers. Crucially, this event doubles as the West Bengal rollout of the Digital Agriculture Mission’s AgriStack platform, which will create a unified digital identity for farmers in a state that has historically lagged in DPI adoption. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | June 12, 2026 India’s Layer 5: Sectoral Digital Public Infrastructure — covering health (ABHA), agriculture (AgriStack), and justice (eCourts) — had a landmark week. From ABHA crossing 90 crore registrations to AgriStack winning a national e-governance gold medal to the Supreme Court releasing draft AI regulations for courts, this is the sectoral DPI layer firing on all cylinders. 1. ABHA Crosses 90 Crore — India’s Health ID Enters a New Phase The National Health Authority (NHA) announced on May 30 that the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has issued over 90 crore (900 million) ABHA IDs, marking a significant inflection point for India’s digital health identity system.1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | June 05, 2026 Layer L5: Sectoral Infrastructure — ABHA, AgriStack, eCourts & AI in the Judiciary This week’s sectoral DPI layer saw three major developments spanning health identity, agricultural data infrastructure, and judicial technology — each reinforcing India’s ambition to build sector-specific digital public infrastructure that interoperates with the foundational layers of identity, payments, and data exchange. 1. ABHA Crosses 90 Crore: India’s Digital Health Identity Hits a Global Scale On May 30, the National Health Authority (NHA) announced that the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has surpassed 90 crore (900 million) ABHA registrations — making it one of the largest digital health identity platforms in the world. 1 2 ...